Translation: Banned App Users’ Anthem Harmonized
“In This World” was a song by Chinese singer Wang Jianfang. In 2017, the song was a...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Apr 18, 2018
“In This World” was a song by Chinese singer Wang Jianfang. In 2017, the song was a...
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | Nov 2, 2012
In addition to taxi cabs, Reuters reports that even the pigeons of Beijing must adhere to heightened restrictions as officials in the Chinese capital take no chances ahead of next week’s 18th Party Congress: Li Zhonghe,...
Read MorePosted by Xiao Qiang | Jun 13, 2010
Not only netizens with liberal political views oppose Internet censorship and state propaganda, both external and domestic. The following was originally posted in the usually hyper-nationalistic and militant Iron and Blood Forum...
Read MorePosted by Xiao Qiang | Nov 11, 2007
The following was originally posted on Beijing based lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan’s blog and translated by CDT: On the afternoon of November 2, a lawyer named Mr. Li received a phone call from a lawyer friend with another law firm,...
Read MorePosted by Cindy Carter | Nov 23, 2022
Earlier this week, screenshots of “Ten Questions” about China’s pandemic policy began making the rounds on the Chinese internet and social media, attracting a great deal of interest and commentary. Those screenshots have now...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Boyd | Dec 13, 2021
The United States-led “Summit for Democracy”, which kicked off on December 8, is designed to reverse the trend of global democratic “backsliding.” It touched a nerve in China, triggering a wave of state- and Party-directed...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Oct 20, 2020
Earlier this month NetEase user @YouyouXishuoDianying wrote an essay expressing concern over personal privacy in the age of big data. The essay outlines an experience with targeted corporate advertisement on WeChat, and joins...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Apr 16, 2020
In 2020, CDT Chinese editors launched the CDT Censorship Digest series. The series will collect and quote from news and online speech that was censored by Chinese authorities during the previous month, as well as summarize...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Nov 22, 2018
Peking University graduate Sun Min was one of over a dozen student and labor activists detained by...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Oct 8, 2018
On September 9, Hong Kong-based Initium Media published a lengthy article by freelancer Jiang...
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